CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death

CHRIS & NANCY, Ultimate Historical Edition will be published later as a paperback, with a new cover. For now, the new CHRIS & NANCY is available only as an ebook on the Amazon, Apple Books, Rakuten Kobo, and Google Play platforms.
You can order an autographed copy of the 2009 “classic” edition, by remitting $19.95 via PayPal to paypal@muchnick.net or by sending a money order in that amount to Benoit Book, P.O. Box 9629, Berkeley, CA 94709. (Orders from Canada should add $10.00 for postage and handling; orders from other foreign countries should add $20.00 for postage and handling.) Fulfillment of orders for the "classic" edition will include supplemental printouts of the new introductions for the 2013 second edition and for the 2020 Ultimate Historical Edition.

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his influential book, first published in 2009, bridges the worlds of sports, “sports entertainment,” and national politics, and helped put the sports concussion crisis on the map. CHRIS & NANCY is the true-crime account of the events of June 2007, when WWE star Chris Benoit murdered his wife and their 7-year-old son, before taking his own life. The Benoit story spurred the research of chronic traumatic encephalopathy pioneer Dr. Bennet Omalu, inspired Congressional investigations, and impacted the Senate campaigns of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon.Today, her husband Vince's global pop culture franchise is more entrenched than ever -- while their pal Donald Trump has staged a remarkable populist, demagogic, wrestling-style takeover of politics and public style.

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Investigative journalism is not “peer-reviewed scientific literature.” It is a contact sport. My version of it favors transparent and interactive relationships with readers and sources. I also recognize that backstories and their interpretation are organic; I strive for what is, at best, the second draft of history.